{"id":91377,"date":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91377\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","slug":"wheeler-thomas-scores-21-as-north-dakota-state-knocks-off-cal-state-bakersfield-80-69-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/91377\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler-Thomas scores 21 as North Dakota State knocks off Cal State Bakersfield 80-69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/damari-wheeler-thomas-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damari Wheeler-Thomas<\/a>&#8216; 21 points helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/north-dakota-state-bison-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakota State<\/a> defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/bakersfield-roadrunners-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal State Bakersfield<\/a> 80-69 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Wheeler-Thomas had three steals for the Bison (8-3). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/markhi-strickland-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markhi Strickland<\/a> scored 15 points while shooting 6 of 11 from the field and 3 for 6 from the free-throw line and grabbed five rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/andy-stefonowicz-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Stefonowicz<\/a> went 4 of 7 from the field (3 for 4 from 3-point range) to finish with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Ron Jessamy led the way for the Roadrunners (4-7) with 18 points, six rebounds, two steals and four blocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/cj-hardy-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ Hardy<\/a> added 13 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-basketball\/jaden-alexander-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Alexander<\/a> also recorded eight points and two steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Damari Wheeler-Thomas&#8216; 21 points helped North Dakota State defeat Cal State Bakersfield 80-69 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-91377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}